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There was a karate master who used to fight bulls with his bare hands.

Masutatsu Oyama was the founder of Kyokushin, a style of karate practiced by people like Sean Connery and Dolph Lundgren. In the 1950s, Oyama used to demonstrate his power by fighting bulls. He fought and killed 52 bulls using just martial arts, often by first chopping the bulls’ horns off with karate chops. Though he did nearly get killed himself, and once had to be hospitalized for 6 months, he got really good at fighting bulls. Three of them he was able to kill instantly. He also earned the title of “the Godhand” because he could knock out most of his (human) opponents with just one punch!
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Vincent Van Gogh only sold one painting in his lifetime.

Van Gogh was a struggling artist his entire life. Though he painted almost 900 paintings, he didn’t sell any until The Red Vineyard in Brussels for 400 francs. This was just months before he died. It was after his death that he became much more popular and recognized for his work.
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There’s a man who can read songs on record grooves.

Dr. Arthur Lintgen can determine which piece of classical music is on a record just by looking at it. His knowledge of classical music goes back as far as Beethoven, so anything by Beethoven or afterward he can identify by the record grooves. By looking at the spacing and contour of the grooves, Lintgen can figure out the number of movements in a piece, the length of each movement, and how loud they all are. From that, he can accurately pick out which piece he’s reading.
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Athletes in red are more likely to win.

Anthropologists collected data from the 2004 Summer Olympic Games and came to surprising conclusions. In four sports where athletes were randomly assigned red protective gear, the red athletes won 16 out of 21 times. Scientists don’t know why this is the case, though their might be some psychological causes behind it.
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Some citizens of Granville, PA can light their tap water on fire!

Due to odd ground formations throughout Pennsylvania’s landscape and several crudely built water wells, much of the state’s water supply contains a high amount of methane. However, Granville resident Sherry Vargson is among a series of recent cases where drilling for natural gas has caused methane leakage of potentially dangerous proportions. For the past year, Miss Vargson has been forced to cook using water from a jug because her tap water could very easily be set ablaze! With an increase in both the demand for natural gas and these sorts of occurrences industry officials are working to refine the system and prevent these sorts of mishaps in future drilling endeavors.
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